Re: OT : eBay

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxx>]

I don't know anything about eBay in particular, but you're assuming your PC
has been hacked when
this may not be so. You could try asking the people at eBay if they can
help. This may be more than
just your account.

If your PC has been hacked, are you sure it has been attacked from the
internet and not through
physical access to your PC by somebody else? Have you accessed your eBay
account from more than one
PC - maybe the problem arose elsewhere?

Do you have any virus scanning software? It may be that you have a trojan
horse and a virus scan may
find it. Of course, if you *do* have a trojan, then the last thing you
should do is change your
passwords from an infected PC: only by accessing your accounts would
somebody else find out what
your passwords are.

HTH,
Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Surgenor" <malcolm@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 11:02 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] OT : eBay


>
> I know this is not quite HA but equally I feel amongst friends
here  :-)
>
> My eBay account has been hacked tonight with my password, password
hint and
> registration details all being changed.  Now I don't know if this
is quite
> common but it sure scares the heck out of me that someone could have
done
> this. For example what else have they got?
>
> Anyone know how this might have happened?  I'm sitting behind a
router and I
> also have ZoneAlarm Pro running (well most of the time - when it's
not
> giving me problems!).
>
> Should I go and change all my passwords (what a thought!) now?
>
> Malcolm
>
>
>
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